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Back From the Dead. "Drums in the Night" by Bertolt Brecht. Brink Productions and State Theatre Company South Australia [review]
(The Adelaide Review, 2005-04-14)"Drums in the Night", written in the early 1920s when the playwright himself was only just out of his teens, has many of the elements of the later, more famous works. Featuring a simple, fable-like plot, satiric comment ... -
Back to Beguinnings. "Roger McGuinn". Governor Hindmarsh [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2001-07)I first heard of Roger McGuinn when he was known as Jim. He was the serious young ectomorph in the houndstooth coat and little black lozenge spectacles on the cover of the first Byrds album. Foppish in their American Carnaby ... -
Beat the Bourgeoisie. "Drums in the Night" by Bertolt Brecht. Brink Productions and State Theatre Company of South Australia [review]
(The Australian, 2005-04-06)Using a cabaret setting, director Chris Drummond, designer Gaelle Mellis and a fine cast give us essence of Weimar but with a convincingly contemporary style and a text that captures current vernacular without drowning in ... -
Big World. Womadelaide 2001 [review]
(The Adelaide Review, 2001-03)Womadelaide Mark Six has come and gone and its remarkable continuity is again assured. The key to its success is clear. It is well-funded, well managed and has a modus operandi that not only works but is shared by the ... -
Blind Faith Up Close and Personal. "The Blind Boys of Alabama". Governor Hindmarsh. [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2003-05)In Adelaide for a second time are The Blind Boys of Alabama, the gospel singing group founded in 1939 and enjoying considerable chic since moving several years ago to Peter Gabriel’s Real Music label and collaborating with ... -
Brains on the Outside. 'Vanishing Point' by Compagnie Philippe Genty. Her Majesty's. [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2004-09)This new show has all the signatures of a Genty production. Located next to a miniature chair, white lines on a black backdrop provide the geometric paradox of the vanishing point. From the first we are intrigued with ... -
Buried Lives. "A Lie of the Mind" by Sam Shepard. Brink Productions [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2001-12)The second and final Brink production for the year is also an American play. Sam Shepard’s "A Lie of the Mind" makes an interesting pair with the company’s co-production with State Theatre back in June. That was "Killer ... -
Cabaret Funnies - Fond and Furious. "iBob" by Bob Downe, "We Don't Have Husbands" by the Kransky Sisters, and "The Big Con" by Max Gilles and Eddie Perfect. Adelaide Cabaret Festival [review]
(The Adelaide Review, 2005-07-08)The Adelaide Cabaret Festival, in part, arose from the need to separate from the avalanche of stand-up comedy that dominates the Fringe. However, there has been no shortage of funny business in the Festival Centre recently ... -
Cabaret in May. "Adelaide Cabaret Festival". [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2001-06)The recent "Adelaide Cabaret Festival" has been a curious event. The result has been a mixed menu of middle of the road favourites, jazzy morning melodies, an outing for the ASO, a few choice items from here and there and ... -
A Case of Mistaken Identity. "The Government Inspector" by Nikolai Gogol. State Theatre South Australia [review]
(The Adelaide Review, 2005-03-17)For State Theatre’s contribution to Come Out and as a spritzy opening to the 2005 season, newly arrived Artistic Director Adam Cook has assembled a talented cast to stage an energetic revival of a European classic. ... -
Charming Picture Books Spring To Life. 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Fish' by Eric Carle. Windmill Performing Arts [review]
(The Australian, 2002-10-04)Windmill Director Cate Fowler describes Twinkle Twinkle Little Fish as a production which was determined to be born. Commissioned for the 1998 Out of the Box Festival in Brisbane, it nearly stayed in its box when ACT based ... -
Cinematic Focus Richly Rewarded. Adelaide Film Festival - Shedding Light and Casting Shadows [review]
(The Australian, 2002-03-08)The Adelaide Festival films have always been one of Peter Sellars’ pet ideas, and they have turned out to be among his best. With various funding, including $1.5m from the Festival, Shedding Light Director and SBS Independent ... -
Clones Expose a Moral Dilemma. "A Number" by Caryl Churchill. State Theatre of South Australia [review]
(The Australian, 2004-05-14)Whenever the subject of cloning human beings is raised, images from cinema science fiction are never far behind. With herds of mindless, robotic replicants - whether the smooth limbed Aryans in Blade Runner or the nasty ... -
Clowning Around. 'Moliere’s Scapin' adapted by Scott Witt. State Theatre Company with Queensland Theatre Company. [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2003-12)Director Scott Witt, in this joint production for State Theatre and QTC, has freely adapted the original and given the Scapin actor ideas above his station. He longs for the seriousness of tragedy and much of the text ... -
Combat Zone. "Third World Blues" by David Williamson. State Theatre Company [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2001-03)For an artist to return to a finished work and then revise it, is rarely a simple matter. So when, in 1997, David Williamson went back to his 1972 script "Jugglers Three" and reworked it, he again raised interesting questions ... -
Comedy Preview. "Adelaide Fringe Festival". [preview]
(Adelaide Review', 2004-02)Before television re-discovered Australian humour and FM breakfast executives began strip-mining the stand-up industry, comedy at the Adelaide Fringe was all one big lucky dip where Funny Stories, LosTrios Ringbarkus, the ... -
The Cost of Living. "Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller. State Theatre Company [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2004-09)When Arthur Miller wrote "Death of a Salesman" in a six week rush in the spring of 1948 his ambition was to write a play about the tragic fall of an ordinary man. He called his protagonist ‘Loman’ just to underline the ... -
Crimes and Misdemeanours. "Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love" by Brad Fraser State Theatre. "Speaking in Tongues" by Andrew Bovell. Griffin Theatre Company. [review]
(Adelaide Review, 1998-10)Love and Human Remains, as the play was retitled in Fraser's own film adaptation, is a canny blend of soapie, crime thriller and young singles sitcom. In State Theatre's mainstage version, director Rosalba Clemente and ... -
Dark Study of Fraught Family Leavened With Light Touches. 'drowning in my ocean of You' by Fiona Sprott. State Theatre Company [review]
(The Australian, 2003-10-03)This is risky territory but the performances are so well judged that such studied theatricality only enhances Colleen Cross’s truthful study of the reluctant Heroine. Once again Fiona Sprott, with excellent script development ... -
Death Of a Father Exposes the Illusions of His Sons. "The Duck Shooter" by Marty Denniss. Brink Productions and State Theatre Company of South Australia [review]
(The Australian, 2004-07-15)One of Adelaide’s brightest companies when they first appeared in 1996, Brink Productions had begun to lose puff and purpose in the last few years. Now, with renewed energy and the recent appointment of Chris Drummond as ...